Health Care BS

As I have pointed out before, a number of analysts have shown that net health effect of global warming is likely to be positive. However, like most religious sects, the Chuch of Warmism is impervious to objective data. Thus, we have hysterical nonsense such as this from USA Today:

From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes and Southwest droughts, the effects of climate change will have an unprecedented impact on the health of Americans …

Not only is there no evidence to supoort any of this BS, new data suggest that global temperatures are actually declining. The Australian reports the following comments from Jennifer Marohasy, of the Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs:

If you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued … carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.

Well, you say, Marohasy must be an isolated “denier” shunned by the zillions of scientists whose opinions have produced the “consensus” on climate change. Nope.

The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged [the cooling trend]. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued …

None of this will have any effect on the true believers who fill the pews every week at the Church of Warmism. But for those of us who care about objective facts, two things are obvious: (1) global temperatures are not behaving as predicted by the priests of climate change and (2) rising temperatures are probably good news from the perspectice of public health.